Digital technology takes root in the entity to accelerate the green transformation of the industry

On January 19, the "2022 New Economy Think Tank Conference" with the theme of "Green Low-Carbon Cycle: New Power and New Mission" was held in Beijing.

The "two-carbon" goal promotes the transformation of the development model

In the past 2021, China proposed the goal of "strive to peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060".

At the 2022 New Economy Think Tank Conference, Jiang Yi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor at the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University, said that the "dual-carbon economy" will become an important engine for China's development in the next 40 years, promote the energy technology revolution, reduce the proportion of high-energy-consuming industries, and drive the Industrial upgrading, so as to achieve energy saving and carbon reduction

Du Shaozhong, vice chairman of the All-China Environmental Protection Federation, believes that the carbon reduction advantages of the digital economy should be closely combined with the broad prospects of green development, and new forms of green and low-carbon development, new models, and new industries should be born, and the enabling role of digital technology should be implemented throughout.

Gao Shiji, director of the Institute of Resources and Environmental Policy of the Development Research Center of the State Council, called the two "Ds" of "digitalization" and "decarbonization" as "twin engines driving green and low-carbon development goals"

Du Shaozhong believes that the combination of digital technology and the "3060" goal is to use digitalization to promote greening and low-carbonization, and achieve "1+1>2"

Michael Spencer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001 and academic committee member of Luohan Hall, has been paying attention to digital technology and climate change in recent years.

Digital technology promotes green development of traditional industries

According to industry insiders, around the goal of low-carbon development, the digital economy will accelerate its integration with the real economy

Many companies are actively taking action

By installing Alibaba Cloud's "industrial brain", workers who are usually responsible for temperature control during incineration can now be freed from nearly 10,000 temperature control operations per day, reducing workload by 90% and increasing power generation by five percentage points.

　　Alibaba Rhino Factory (file photo)

　　In the Ali Rhinoceros factory in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, through "smart brain" scheduling and IoT layout, the production line has extremely flexible manufacturing capabilities.

　　In addition to improving efficiency, the Rhino factory also uses E-Flow atomization technology to replace traditional water bath treatment, which can reduce the water consumption of each garment to 1/3 of the original traditional washing water, greatly reducing emissions

　　According to Accenture data, when companies move from on-premises IT infrastructure to the cloud, they can reduce their carbon footprint by an average of 84%

Alibaba Zhangbei Data Center (file photo)

　　Wen Jia, President of Public Affairs of Alibaba Group, believes that high-end manufacturing and intelligent manufacturing supported by digital technology are becoming the mainstream of the industry, and low-carbon transformation will become a new key for the accelerated integration of the digital economy and the real economy

　　Platform Enterprises Help Ecological Carbon Reduction

　　More than just serving traditional businesses to be "greener", the digital economy is accelerating the establishment of effective green markets where consumers and producers can find matching channels

　　Michael Spencer said at the 2022 New Economy Think Tank Conference that platform companies can provide key convenience in creating new market rules, promoting green products and information dissemination, setting effective consumption incentives, and promoting entrepreneurial innovation.

　　According to Alibaba data, during the "Double Eleven" period in 2021, 4.
8 million consumers participated in Cainiao's "return box plan", allowing express parcels to be recycled at 87,000 Cainiao stations; a total of 4.
2 billion Beijing residents visited On the "MaaS" platform jointly launched by Beijing Communications Commission and AutoNavi, greener travel methods such as bus, subway, and cycling are selected; more than 1 million items are delivered to Xianyu by their "original owners" every day.
"New owner", idle items usher in a new life.
.
.

　　"Alibaba can cultivate green culture, ecological culture, and zero-carbon culture with the lowest cost and in a quiet way,
" said Li Weiyang, vice president of the State Grid Energy Research Institute
.

　　Gao Hongbing, vice president of Alibaba Group and dean of Alibaba Research Institute, believes that platform companies need to establish certification and credit systems to help consumers understand green products and purchase real green products
.
At the same time, positive incentives such as carbon credits are given on the consumer side and the merchant side, which can exert force on both sides of supply and demand, and accelerate the spread of green environmental protection awareness through commodities as a carrier
.

　　Jin Min, an expert from the International Resource Expert Committee of the United Nations Environment Programme and a professor at the School of Environment, Renmin University of China, believes that the most critical issue in green consumption is the establishment of a green market
.
There are three key factors in the establishment of a green market, namely, green trust, green premium, and green supply.
This is where platform companies have great potential
.

　　In 2021, Taobao's "Double Eleven" will set up a special green venue for the first time since it was held 13 years ago.
It encourages businesses to submit more green products and green logistics, and supports energy conservation and emission reduction with practical actions.
At the same time, a "green business alliance" is established to spread green culture and philosophy
.

　　According to reports, at the end of 2021, Alibaba released the "Alibaba Carbon Neutral Action Report", which is the first carbon neutral action report released in the domestic Internet technology industry
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The report proposes three goals: achieve carbon neutrality in its own operations no later than 2030; halve the carbon emission intensity of upstream and downstream value chains no later than 2030, take the lead in achieving carbon neutrality in cloud computing and become a green cloud; use 15 years With the power of the platform, it will drive the ecological carbon reduction by 1.
5 billion tons
.

　　The industry pointed out that green and low-carbon development is not only a problem of energy and technology, it requires all producers and consumers to join in, and motivated to choose a more low-carbon and sustainable way of life and production, so that China and the world can enter a more sustainable way.
for sustainable operation
.

　　In Alibaba's view, platform companies can form effective incentives and constraints for consumers and other market participants on the premise of giving full play to the market mechanism, and encourage and guide green and low-carbon behaviors of consumers and businesses
.
"Alibaba is a platform that can bring together 1 billion consumers and tens of millions of merchant service providers
.
Although the carbon emissions of these consumers and merchants do not belong to Alibaba's own carbon emissions, Alibaba can guide them and encourage them to practice.
Greener consumption and healthier life
," said Chen Long, Chairman of Alibaba Group's Sustainable Development Management Committee
.
(Reported by reporter Guo Qian in Beijing)